. Wisconsin Frauen im Krieg zwischen den Staaten . ed vor 1861, aber seine Verwendung wurde häufiger während der Kriegsperiode. Zuerst wurden Mäher und Schnitter nur auf den größten Farmen verwendet; später war ihre Verwendung allgemeiner, Und geplünderte durch die der Egge, der Getreidebohrer, der Korn-Pflanzer, der Dampf-Drescher, der rotierende Roßharke, Therotar-Spaten, der Stahlpflug, der Drescher und der zwei-Horsekultivator.*^ in vielen der ärmeren Gemeinden, Es gab jedoch wenig oder keine arbeitssparende Maschinerie und die Frauen, die ihre eigene Bauernarbeit verrichten, sammelten sich in ihren Ernten in der altmodischen wa

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. Wisconsin women in the War between the States . ed before 1861, but its use became more common during the war period.At first mowers and reapers were utilized only on the larg-est farms; later their use was more general, and sup-plemented by that of the harrow, the grain-drill, the corn-planter, the steam-thresher, the revolving horse-rake, therotary-spade, the steel plow, the thresher, and the two-horsecultivator.*^ In many of the poorer communities, however, there waslittle or no labor-saving machinery and the womfen who didtheir own farm-work gathered in their crops in the old-fashioned way. The experience of Mrs. D. is a good il-lustration. In the part of the country where she lived, many of the women had no horses and were forced to har- 42 E. D. Fite, Social and Industrial Conditions During the CivilWar (New York, 1910), p. 6; Agricultural Development of theWest, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, xx, p. 271; R. G.Thwaites, Cyrus Hall McCormick and the Reaper, in Wiscon-sin Historical Society Proceedings, 1908, p. 255. [ 78 ] , . Women workixg in the Fields, in War-Time From sketch by Thomas Nast, in F. B. Goodrich. The Trihute Book(N. Y., 1865), p. 461 CONDITIONS AT HOME ness oxen. She herself had to haul wood, and inexperiencedas she was she broke the wagon-ton^e in the process. Someof the women in her neighborhood sheared sheep, took thewool home, carded and spun it and made socks. Mrs. D.used to bum brush and build fences herself, and she alsohoed and raked. She had once a trying experience with anunruly yoke of cattle, which used to get into the grain;often she had to get up in the middle of the night in orderto drive them out. At one time she went to church, andreturned to find fifteen of her neighbors cattle in herwheat. She raised not only wheat, but also a little buck-wheat; she hired a man to cut it, but threshed it herself.She had planted sixty bushels of sugar-cane on her farmand invited the soldiers in the neighborhood to a cuttingbee; as a result

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